Sotirios Bahtsetzis is a writer, curator and educator based in Athens and Berlin. He holds a PhD on Art History (Technical University of Berlin). He is an adjunct professor in history of art at the European Studies Program of the Hellenic Open University.
In 2009 he was a Fulbright Research Scholar at the Columbia University, N.Y. (U.S.A.) Between 2006 and 2011 he has taught history and theory of modern and contemporary art at the Architecture Department of Patras University and the Architecture Department of the University of Thessalia (Greece). Between 2002 and 2004 he has taught history of culture and visual culture in the Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media and Design at the London Metropolitan University (UK). Between 2005 and 2006 he has been researcher at the Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece.
Lectures at Columbia University, New York, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, FHNW, Basel, Aristotle University/ University of Western Macedonia, Thessaloniki (IPP Museology) and Istanbul Bilgi University.
Curatorial work includes "Roaming Images" (2011), an exhibition on image in contemporary Arab culture, "Paint-id" (2009), an exhibition on contemporay painting in Greece, "Women Only" (2008), the first exhibition on post-feminism in Greece, "Open Plan 2007," the first international curatorial project of the Athens Art fair and the exhibition "An Outing" (2006), the first major exhibition on Greek art in the 21st century.
He writes essays accompanying group and one-man exhibitions and contributes to art and theory magazines (e-flux, afterimage, etc.) He is a member of the IKT (International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art) and AICA (International Art Critics Association).
In 2009 he was a Fulbright Research Scholar at the Columbia University, N.Y. (U.S.A.) Between 2006 and 2011 he has taught history and theory of modern and contemporary art at the Architecture Department of Patras University and the Architecture Department of the University of Thessalia (Greece). Between 2002 and 2004 he has taught history of culture and visual culture in the Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media and Design at the London Metropolitan University (UK). Between 2005 and 2006 he has been researcher at the Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece.
Lectures at Columbia University, New York, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, FHNW, Basel, Aristotle University/ University of Western Macedonia, Thessaloniki (IPP Museology) and Istanbul Bilgi University.
Curatorial work includes "Roaming Images" (2011), an exhibition on image in contemporary Arab culture, "Paint-id" (2009), an exhibition on contemporay painting in Greece, "Women Only" (2008), the first exhibition on post-feminism in Greece, "Open Plan 2007," the first international curatorial project of the Athens Art fair and the exhibition "An Outing" (2006), the first major exhibition on Greek art in the 21st century.
He writes essays accompanying group and one-man exhibitions and contributes to art and theory magazines (e-flux, afterimage, etc.) He is a member of the IKT (International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art) and AICA (International Art Critics Association).
